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  1. Interesting post on the EPA's EUE (Energy Usage Effectiveness) metric http://bit.ly/oEU9t via @addthis
  2. Obama Exec. Order sets strict sustainability targets for Gov to “lead by example” in clean energy economy http://bit.ly/19fDyh
  3. #Datacenters worldwide now consume more #energy annually than Sweden. #NYTimes article on #Datacenter Overload http://bit.ly/XvRgj
  4. #Datacenter Overload article in #NYTimes profiles increasing energy needs of #enterpriseIT http://bit.ly/XvRgj
  5. IT's carbon footprint: growing, but per McKinsey's calculations, also offsetting (gigatons of) other carbon emissions: http://tr.im/jDIZ
  6. Good Earth Day collection on data center energy efficiency; includes Ken Brill, Uptime Institute: http://tr.im/jrAG
  7. Good soundbites from Fortune's Green conf, Laguna Niguel (but how many attendees were able to get that through the CFO?) http://tr.im/jrfM
  8. Environmental Defense Fund quotes Uptime's Ken Brill on Google's energy efficiency data center innovations: http://tr.im/jqcS
  9. Lost in the glare of the Oracle-Sun deal was HP's blade integration play: http://tr.im/jl6J
  10. VMware antes up in war of the clouds: http://tr.im/jkm2
  11. Counterpoint to McKinsey report on the Cloud: http://tr.im/ji8p
  12. http://tr.im/ji8p
  13. Ken: what will you do differently tomorrow? See you at the fall Charrette in Santa Clara, and next May 17 in New York. We re adjourned.
  14. Ken Brill: last year called for doubling of energy efficiency. Now I know that's too low: we can shoot for an order of magnitude improve ...
  15. How do we get our utility to imitate Pacific Gas and Electric? Call your PUC or utility directly.
  16. Feedback from international participant: Certainly well worth the flight over the Atlantic. Will be back next year.
  17. Feedback from international participant: Great conference, lots of interesting facts and information.
  18. Notre Dame: $15k "box" next to greenhouse for the servers. After skepticism, now too much excitement!
  19. Rich Lechner/IBM: I like "sustainability" partly because it's vague. Aberdeen study (soon): sustainability cos. do much much better...
  20. @rjhintz "price signals" in CA: high KW price plus PGE incentives = strong signal to be energy efficient...but it's not working well enough.